1430 CE

The Ottoman Empire, led by the Sultan Murad II, captures Thessalonica in Greece after an eight-year siege. The Hussites defeat Hungarian and Serbian troops in the Battle of Nagyszombat in an invasion of the Kingdom of Hungary near Nagyszombat (now Trnava in Slovakia). The French first attempt to relieve the siege of Compiègne during the Hundred Years War.

In the 1430s, the 15th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • February 6 – The Hussite General Andreas Prokop signs a treaty with Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg at Kulmbach, agreeing to withdraw Hussite troops entirely from Germany.source
  • September 4 – the Republic of Venice signs a treaty with the Ottoman Empire to end the eight-year war between the two nations after the Ottoman capture of Thessalonica, replacing the previous agreement of 1419.source
  • November 27 – King Henry VI summons members of Parliament to assemble on January 12.source

Conflict & Security

  • March 29 – The Ottoman Empire, led by the Sultan Murad II, captures Thessalonica in Greece after an eight-year siege.source
  • April 28 – The Hussites defeat Hungarian and Serbian troops in the Battle of Nagyszombat in an invasion of the Kingdom of Hungary near Nagyszombat (now Trnava in Slovakia).source
  • May 14 – The French first attempt to relieve the Siege of Compiègne.source
  • 14 May – The French first attempt to relieve the siege of Compiègne during the Hundred Years WarFrancesource
  • May 23 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundian troops, led by John II, Count of Ligny, while leading an army to relieve Compiègne. After her surrender to Lyonnel de Wandomme, she is turned over to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and incarcerated at the castle of Beaulieu-les-Fontaines.source
  • 23 May – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians, while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.Francesource
  • July 11 – Battle of Trnava: The Hussites defeat the Hungarian-Moravian-Serbian army.source
  • November 16 – (1st waxing of Natdaw 792 ME) In Burma, Min Saw Mon, King of Arakan, moves the capital from Launggyet to the nearby, but more strategically located, city of Mrauk-U.source
  • With the surrender of Chalandritsa and the citadel of Patras to the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea, the Principality of Achaea comes to an end.source
  • Bratislava Castle is converted to a fortress under Sigismund of Luxembourg.source

Religion & Belief

  • August 23 – Pope Martin V, writing in the papal brief Ad statum, grants recognition to the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, allowing them the right to hold property.source
  • November 21 – Joan of Arc is sold by the Burgundians to the Kingdom of England for 10,000 livre tournois, equivalent to 808.8 kg (28,530 oz or 1,783.1 lbs) of silver.source

Technology & Infrastructure

  • Inch Castle on the southern tip of Inch Island in County Donegal was constructed.Irelandsource

Culture & Society

  • January 7 – Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, marries Isabella of Portugal.source
  • 7 January – Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, marries Isabella of Portugal.Francesource
  • January 10 – Philip the Good founds the Order of the Golden Fleece.source
  • 10 January – Philip the Good founds the Order of the Golden Fleece.Francesource
  • June 14 – William Waynflete becomes vicar of Skendleby, Lincolnshire.source
  • December 23 – Seven months after her capture at Compiegne, Joan of Arc is moved from the castle of Le Crotoy to the tower at the Rouen Castle.source

Births

  • March 10 – Oliviero Carafa, Italian Catholic cardinal (died 1511)source
  • March 23 – Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (died 1482)source
  • 23 March – Margaret of Anjou, future Queen of England (died 1482)Francesource
  • June 13 – Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu, Portuguese infante (died 1506)source
  • June 27 – Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Lancastrian leader during the English Wars of the Roses (died 1475)source
  • October 16 – King James II of Scotland (died 1460) and his twin Alexander Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (died 1430)source
  • October 28 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr, English soldier, son of Reginald West (died 1475)source
  • November 11 – Jošt of Rožmberk, Bishop of Breslau, Grand Prior of the Order of St. John (died 1467)source
  • approximate – Clara Hätzlerin, German scribe (died 1476)source
  • Joana de Castre, Catalan noble (died 1480)source
  • Barbara von Ottenheim, German alleged witch and sculpture model (died 1484)source
  • Isabel Bras Williamson, Scottish merchant (died 1493)source
  • probable – Heinrich Kramer, German churchman and inquisitor (died 1505)source
  • Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese warlordsource

Deaths

  • January 5 – Philippa of England, queen consort of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (born 1394)source
  • January 29 or 1427 – Andrei Rublev, Russian iconographer (possible date; b. 1360)source
  • April 18 – John III, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German countsource
  • 26 June – Louis I, Duke of Bar, bishop (born 1370)Francesource
  • July 3 – In the Bavarian town of Lindau, 15 Jewish residents are burned at the stake after being accused of murdering a Christian child.source
  • August 4 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (born 1404)source
  • August 18 – Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (born 1406)source
  • October 27 – Vytautas, Grand Prince of Lithuania (born 1352)source
  • October 27 – Vytautas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, dies shortly after the cancellation of plans to crown him as King of Lithuania. His cousin Švitrigaila is elected unanimously by the Lithuanian nobles as the new Grand Duke, violating an agreement with the Kingdom of Poland that the Polish nobles would be able to participate in the election.source
  • Christine de Pizan, Italian proto-feminist writer (born 1364)source
  • Alain Chartier, writer (born 1385)Francesource
  • William mac Ulick Burke, the 4th ClanricardeIrelandsource
  • Ulick Ruadh Burke, became 5th lord of Clanricarde (died 1485)Irelandsource